OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Physical Review Physics Education Research is 22. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs	130
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?	73
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course	72
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses	67
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden	55
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course	54
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs	53
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy	50
Astronomy identity framework for undergraduate students and researchers	48
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program	45
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study	44
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements	35
Combining physics education and machine learning research to measure evidence of students’ mechanistic sensemaking	34
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics	34
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies	30
Second quantum revolution: The progressive design of an approach to value its cultural and conceptual scope	28
Development of a global landscape of undergraduate physics laboratory courses	28
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory	25
Psychometric evaluation of the culture around systemic change survey: A tool for assessing facets of departmental culture in physics	25
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research	24
Improving student understanding of the number of distinct many-particle states for a system of identical particles with a fixed number of available single-particle states	24
Teachers’ experiences with taking an open-ended approach in teaching labs in high school physics classes	23